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<span style="color: #990000;"><i><u>Installing and configuring samba on centos 6</u></i></span></h1>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.8400001525879px;">"</span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.8400001525879px;">Samba</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.8400001525879px;">is an Open Source/Free Software suite that provides seamless file and print services to</span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.8400001525879px;">SMB</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.8400001525879px;">/CIFS clients." </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.8400001525879px;">Samba</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.8400001525879px;"> is freely available, unlike other </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.8400001525879px;">SMB</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.8400001525879px;">/CIFS implementations, and allows for interoperability between Linux/Unix</span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.8400001525879px;">servers</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.8400001525879px;"> and Windows-based clients.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "trebuchet" , "trebuchet ms" , "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 30px;"><br /></span></div>
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Step 1<span style="color: #993300;"> </span> : <span style="color: #222222;"> Update yum repositories and packages by typing the below command</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet" , "trebuchet ms" , "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 30px;">Step 2 </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet" , "trebuchet ms" , "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 30px;"> :</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet" , "trebuchet ms" , "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 30px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "trebuchet" , "trebuchet ms" , "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 30px;"> Install samba packages along with dependencies using yum</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><u>Samba configuration :</u></span></h3>
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Step 3  : <span style="color: #222222;"> Create a share username and password .</span></div>
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Now create samba password for username shareuser using smbpasswd command .</div>
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Step 4 <span style="color: black;"> :</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: #222222;">  Create a folder called share in the root directory .</span></div>
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and change the ownership for the share folder</div>
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Step 5  : <span style="color: #222222;">  open the file </span><em style="color: #222222;">/etc/samba/smb.conf</em><span style="color: #222222;"> . ( Before editing the file , please copy the file to another location for backup ) . Add the below lines at the bottom of the file .</span><br />
<code style="background-color: #0e0e0e; border-radius: 5px; color: white; display: block; font-family: Verdana, 'MS Sans Serif', sans-serif, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 25px; padding: 4px;"><br />[share]<br />comment = Share<br />path = /share<br />writable = yes<br />valid users = shareuser</code></div>
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Step 6 : start samba service</div>
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and type this below command to start samba service automatically while booting.</div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><u>Samba testing :</u></span></h3>
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Step 7<span style="color: #993300;"> </span><span style="color: black;"> :</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: #222222;"> You can check  your configuration by using testparm command</span></div>
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<code style="background-color: #0e0e0e; border-radius: 5px; display: block; font-family: Verdana, 'MS Sans Serif', sans-serif, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 25px; padding: 4px;"><span style="color: white;">[root@localhost ~]# </span><span style="color: lime;">testparm</span><br /><span style="color: white;">Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf</span><br /><span style="color: white;">rlimit_max: increasing </span><span style="color: lime;">rlimit_max (1024) to minimum Windows limit (16384)</span><br /><span style="color: white;">Processing section "[homes]"</span><br /><span style="color: white;">Processing section "[printers]"</span><br /><span style="color: white;">Processing section "[share]"</span><br /><span style="color: lime;">Loaded services file OK.</span><span style="color: white;">Server role: ROLE_STANDALONE</span><br /><span style="color: white;">Press enter to see a dump of your service definitions</span></code><code style="background-color: #0e0e0e; border-radius: 5px; display: block; font-family: Verdana, 'MS Sans Serif', sans-serif, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 25px; padding: 4px;"><span style="color: white;"><br />[</span><span style="color: lime;">global</span><span style="color: white;">]</span><br /><span style="color: white;">workgroup = MYGROUP</span><br /><span style="color: white;">server string = Samba Server Version %v</span><br /><span style="color: white;">log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m</span><br /><span style="color: white;">max log size = 50</span><br /><span style="color: white;">cups options = raw</span></code><code style="background-color: #0e0e0e; border-radius: 5px; display: block; font-family: Verdana, 'MS Sans Serif', sans-serif, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 25px; padding: 4px;"><span style="color: white;"><br />[</span><span style="color: lime;">homes</span><span style="color: white;">]</span><br /><span style="color: white;">comment = Home Directories</span><br /><span style="color: white;">read only = No</span><br /><span style="color: white;">browseable = No</span><br /><span style="color: white;">[printers]</span><br /><span style="color: white;">comment = All Printers</span><br /><span style="color: white;">path = /var/spool/samba</span><br /><span style="color: white;">printable = Yes</span><br /><span style="color: white;">browseable = No</span></code><code style="background-color: #0e0e0e; border-radius: 5px; display: block; font-family: Verdana, 'MS Sans Serif', sans-serif, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 25px; padding: 4px;"><span style="color: white;"><br />[</span><span style="color: lime;">share</span><span style="color: white;">]</span><br /><span style="color: white;">comment = Share</span><br /><span style="color: white;">path = /share</span><br /><span style="color: white;">valid users = </span><span style="color: lime;">shareuser</span><br /><span style="color: white;">read only = No</span></code></div>
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You can see your share sections. Here by default home folders of users will be displayed . you can comment the unwanted section using “;” symbol .</div>
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<span style="color: #222222;">For example . you can comment homes section as below and restart the service using  “</span><span style="color: red;"><b>service smb restart</b></span><span style="color: #222222;">”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;">Now you can access share folder on windows machine by typing </span><span style="color: red;">\samba-server-ip</span><span style="color: #222222;"> on run prompt . you can see your share folder after entering username and password.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;">Example - \\192.168.2.251</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">First, <a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/2016/01/centos-rhel-scientific-linux-6-enable.html" style="color: grey; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">turn on EPEL repo on a CentOS or RHEL</a> based system. Type the following yum command to install nload:</span><code style="background-color: #fafbfc; border: 1px solid rgb(222, 222, 222); clear: both; color: #666666; display: block; line-height: 1em; margin: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 21px; word-wrap: normal;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"># yum install nload</span></code></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Type the following apt-get command:</span><code style="background-color: #fafbfc; border: 1px solid rgb(222, 222, 222); clear: both; color: #666666; display: block; line-height: 1em; margin: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 21px; word-wrap: normal;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">$ sudo apt-get install nload</span></code></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Install nload on a FreeBSD system</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">To install the nload via port, type:</span><code style="background-color: #fafbfc; border: 1px solid rgb(222, 222, 222); clear: both; color: #666666; display: block; line-height: 1em; margin: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 21px; word-wrap: normal;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"># cd /usr/ports/net/nload/ && make install clean</span></code><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" />Or add the package</span><code style="background-color: #fafbfc; border: 1px solid rgb(222, 222, 222); clear: both; color: #666666; display: block; line-height: 1em; margin: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 21px; word-wrap: normal;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"># pkg install net/nload</span></code></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Type the following command:</span><code style="background-color: #fafbfc; border: 1px solid rgb(222, 222, 222); clear: both; color: #666666; display: block; line-height: 1em; margin: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 21px; word-wrap: normal;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">$ sudo pkg_add -i nload</span></code></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><u>Install nload using a source code on a Unix-like systems</u></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">First, grab the source code using either wget command or curl command:</span><code style="background-color: #fafbfc; border: 1px solid rgb(222, 222, 222); clear: both; color: #666666; display: block; line-height: 1em; margin: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 21px; word-wrap: normal;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">$ cd /tmp<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" />$ wget http://www.roland-riegel.de/nload/nload-0.7.4.tar.gz</span></code><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" />To untar a tar file called nload-0.7.4.tar.gz, use tar command, enter:</span><code style="background-color: #fafbfc; border: 1px solid rgb(222, 222, 222); clear: both; color: #666666; display: block; line-height: 1em; margin: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 21px; word-wrap: normal;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">$ tar xvf nload-0.7.4.tar.gz</span></code><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" />Cd to the directory containing the nloads's source code using cd command:</span><code style="background-color: #fafbfc; border: 1px solid rgb(222, 222, 222); clear: both; color: #666666; display: block; line-height: 1em; margin: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 21px; word-wrap: normal;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">$ cd nload*</span></code><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" />And type <kbd style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">./configure</kbd> to configure the package for your system:</span><code style="background-color: #fafbfc; border: 1px solid rgb(222, 222, 222); clear: both; color: #666666; display: block; line-height: 1em; margin: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 21px; word-wrap: normal;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">$ sh ./configure</span></code><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" />OR</span><code style="background-color: #fafbfc; border: 1px solid rgb(222, 222, 222); clear: both; color: #666666; display: block; line-height: 1em; margin: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 21px; word-wrap: normal;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">$ ./configure</span></code><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" />Running configure takes a while. Type make command to compile the nload:</span><code style="background-color: #fafbfc; border: 1px solid rgb(222, 222, 222); clear: both; color: #666666; display: block; line-height: 1em; margin: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 21px; word-wrap: normal;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">$ make</span></code><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" />Finally, type <kbd style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">make install</kbd> to install the nload programs and related files as root user:</span><code style="background-color: #fafbfc; border: 1px solid rgb(222, 222, 222); clear: both; color: #666666; display: block; line-height: 1em; margin: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 21px; word-wrap: normal;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">$ sudo make install</span></code><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" />OR</span><code style="background-color: #fafbfc; border: 1px solid rgb(222, 222, 222); clear: both; color: #666666; display: block; line-height: 1em; margin: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 21px; word-wrap: normal;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"># make install</span></code></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">How do I use nload to display the current network usage?</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The basic syntax is:</span><span style="background-color: #fafbfc; color: #666666;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Controlling nload app</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Once nload command executed, it begins to monitor the network devices. You can control nload with the following key shortcuts:</span></div>
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<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You can switch between the devices by pressing the <kbd style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">left</strong></kbd> and <kbd style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">right</strong></kbd> arrow keys or<kbd style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">Enter/Tab<kbd style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"></kbd></strong> key.</kbd></span></li>
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<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Press <kbd style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">F5</strong></kbd> to save current settings to the user’s config file.</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Press <kbd style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">F6</strong></kbd> reload settings from the config files.</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Press <kbd style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">q</strong></kbd> or hit <kbd style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">Ctrl+C</strong></kbd> to quit nload.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The default value of interval is 100 milliseconds to refresh interval of the display. In this example, change to 500 milliseconds:</span><code style="background-color: #fafbfc; border: 1px solid rgb(222, 222, 222); clear: both; color: #666666; display: block; line-height: 1em; margin: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 21px; word-wrap: normal;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">$ nload -t {interval_number_in_millisec}<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" />$ nload -t 500</span></code><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" />Sample outputs:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The syntax is:</span><code style="background-color: #fafbfc; border: 1px solid rgb(222, 222, 222); clear: both; color: #666666; display: block; line-height: 1em; margin: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 21px; word-wrap: normal;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">$ nload -u h|H|b|B|k|K|m|M|g|G<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" />$ nload -U h|H|b|B|k|K|m|M|g|G<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" />$ nload -u h<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" />$ nload -u G<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" />$ nload -U G</span></code><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" />Where,</span></div>
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